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NEW YORK — Conor McGregor arrived in the courthouse in handcuffs and left with both his passport and the right to fly home to Ireland.

In between, though, he had to agree to post $50,000 US bail after spending

Thursday night and most of Friday in police custody — and he’ll need to be back in court on June 14.

The UFC’s biggest star was charged with three counts of misdemeanour assault and one count of criminal mischief after he stormed into Brooklyn’s Barclays Center arena on Thursday afternoon and attacked a bus full of fighters set to compete at UFC 223 on Saturday evening.

Multiple videos posted by fighters showed McGregor and a group of around 20 men surrounding the bus and throwing objects at it while attempting to prevent it from leaving the arena.

On Friday, McGregor was also accused of punching a member of the security team, Jason Ledbetter, at the Barclays Center.

“Defendant McGregor also throws a punch at someone who was on security detail,” said prosecutor Wilfredo Cotto. “He throws a punch, striking that individual. That individual also sustained injuries — pain, swelling and bruising. He was treated at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.”

Conor McGregor in 2016 during a weigh-in in New York.Julio Cortez / AP

McGregor remained expressionless throughout his five-minute arraignment at the downtown Brooklyn Central Booking facility. His bail was set at $50,000, but his passport will not be seized by U.S. authorities. He will be allowed to fly back to his native Ireland.

In the videos posted online, McGregor was seen throwing a dolly through a bus window, injuring lightweight Michael Chiesa and flyweight Ray Borg and causing the UFC to pull both of their fights from Saturday’s card.

McGregor’s teammate, Artem Lobov, also had his fight against Alex Caceres cancelled because of his involvement in the incident.

Multiple reports have confirmed that McGregor and his crew were trying to get at UFC lightweight star Khabib Nurmagomedov as retaliation for an incident between the Russian’s team and Lobov earlier in the week at the fighter hotel in Brooklyn.

In addition to the four charges filed against McGregor, judge Consuelo Mallafre-Melendez also issued an order of protection in favour of Chiesa, Borg, Ledbetter, Ozzy Arias, and Ricardo Chico against McGregor. The Irishman was strictly ordered not to have any contact with them or he would be arrested again.

McGregor, whose friend Cian Cowley was also charged for the part he played in the attack and was given $25,000 bail, turned himself into the NYPD shortly after 10 p.m. EST on Tuesday night, and was brought in front of the judge on Friday afternoon at 3:45 p.m. local time.

While McGregor himself offered no statement to the media and spoke only with “Yes, your honour” when addressed by the judge, his lawyer Jim Walden did argue on his behalf and insisted he wasn’t a flight risk.

“My client self-surrendered and, when asked the first time to have his friend surrendered, he got his friend,” Walden said. “He’s the most visible face on the planet.” UFC president Dana White has suggested that several of the fighters who were on the bus that McGregor attacked may file civil charges, and it seems inevitable that there will be repercussions coming from the UFC itself.

For now, though, White said nothing has been decided — or even discussed — about how to deal with McGregor’s fighting career moving forward.

“Next week, we’re going to go home and figure out how this whole thing plays out,” White said. “This is a very unique situation we’re in. It’s never happened in 20 years of doing this.”

LESNAR 2.0?

It’s looking increasingly likely that Brock Lesnar could make a return to the UFC.

The former heavyweight champion and current WWE wrestler has been rumoured to be eyeing a return for some time now, despite failing a USADA-administered drug test when he fought Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in July 2016.

With Conor McGregor looking like he’ll be gone for a while after the stupidity that got him arrested this week in Brooklyn, the UFC could sure use someone with Lesnar’s star power.

UFC president Dana White hinted this week that something was near and even acknowledged that Lesnar might get an immediate shot at the winner of July’s super-fight at UFC 226 between heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic and light-heavyweight king Daniel Cormier.

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